Office of Rail and Road – Qualifying Regulatory Provisions

Reporting period 8 May 2015 – 8 June 2017

Section 24A of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, as amended by the Enterprise Act 2016, requires statutory regulators to publish a list of all ‘qualifying regulatory provisions’ with a figure showing the economic impact on Business of each QRP made in accordance with the BIT Methodology (“BIT Score”), such figure having been verified by the Regulatory Policy Committee (“RPC”). The following list meets this obligation. Further information can be found at ORR website: http://www.orr.gov.uk/about-orr/how-we-work/better-regulation

| Qualifying Regulatory Provisions | Description of measure | BIT score (£ millions) | RPC reference number | |----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------|----------------------| | CHP Guidance | Guidance to train and station operators on how to meet their licence obligations in respect of complaint handling | £0 | RPC-3501(1)-DFT-ORR | | Model Freight Contract | Revision by ORR of an industry agreed ‘model contract’ available for businesses to use to reduce the need for bespoke track access agreements | £0 | RPC-3502(1)-DFT-ORR | | RSP 1 staff competence guidance | Advice on how safety ‘duty holders’ may best to develop and maintain staff competence to control safety risk | £0 | RPC17-3609(1)-DfT-ORR | | Guidance - CA98 & Market studies | Guidance on the application of competition law and market studies to the rail industry | £0 | RPC17-DfT-ORR-3768(1) | | Guidance on RSR 2017 | Guidance to safety duty holders on implementation of the rail safety regulations 2017 | £0 | RPC-3821(1)-DFT-ORR. | | Systematic approach to safety guidance | ORR’s review and revision of existing safety guidance to reduce the volume of this guidance | £0 | RPC-DFT-ORR-3946(1) | | Core data compliance monitoring | Requirements on train and station operators to provide regular data to monitor compliance with their licence conditions | £0 | RPC-3842(1)-DFT-ORR | | TVM remedies | Proposals to train operators to improve consumer confidence when making purchases from ticket vending machines | £0 | RPC-DFT-ORR-3990(1) | | Freight general approvals | Widen of our ‘general approvals’ approach for freight track access contracts | £0 | RPC-4005(1)-DFT-ORR | | Train driver licensing portal | Introduction of a voluntary electronic application process to licence train drivers | £0 | RPC17-3861(1)-DfT-ORR | | Update of ORR’s General Approvals for Station and Depot Access Agreements | Adjustments and simplifications to ORR’s General Approval process for businesses applying for depot or station access agreements. | £0 | RPC-4065(1) |